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Re: Why NOT send UDP over tor?

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Subject: Re: Why NOT send UDP over tor?
From: Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:28:33 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:20:36AM -0500, andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:56:55AM -0500, praedor@xxxxxxxxx wrote 0.5K bytes in 12 lines about:
> : Subject says it all.  Why is only TCP sent over tor and not UDP?  Why not simply suck up and send ALL net traffic, regardless of type, through tor so there can be no anonymity violations?
> 
> The short answer is it needs research and coding to do correctly.  The
> long answer is in here,
> https://www.torproject.org/press/presskit/2009-03-11-performance.pdf

Another short answer, from 2005, is
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#YoushouldtransportallIPpacketsnotjustTCPpackets.

--Roger

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References:
- Why NOT send UDP over tor?
  - From: Praedor Atrebates
- Re: Why NOT send UDP over tor?
  - From: andrew

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